![]() ![]() ![]() Kingdom of Sand is a book that will burnish Holleran’s considerable reputation: a reverie to sex but also a stunningly honest exploration of loneliness and our endless need for human connection, especially as we count down our days. His following works have established him as one of the great writers of our time. filled with handsome young men to the lonely facades of suburban Gainesville, Florida.Īndrew Holleran’s ground-breaking first novel Dancer from the Dance is widely regarded as a classic work of gay literature. In prose that’s in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Holleran takes the reader from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, D.C. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. ![]() Now, he must witness the slow demise of friends just a shade older than he is. Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old-age and tragedy. Andrew Holleran’s unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire-the first novel in thirteen years from one the most acclaimed gay authors of our time. ![]()
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